Republican representatives of the Chamber of Representatives and Senate who support the bill on sanctions against Russia have established a new strategy: linking this act with the prepared bill to maintain administration activities.
“Time is crucial,” said Senator Lindsey Graham and Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick in the statement I received. – We call on our colleagues to consider joining this budgetary funds financing the government (CR).
Citing the Saturday promise of Trump regarding the introduction of “serious sanctions against Russia”, when NATO countries stop buying oil from Moscow and impose duties on China, Graham and Fitzpatrick, they specified the president's obligation and their law as “joint action with Europe”.
Next week, as the legislators said, they will persuade their colleagues “on both sides of the political scene to join us in the promotion of this law and stand on the side of freedom against tyranny.”
However, adding this measure to a resolution on continuing to finance can be The only way to accept the packagewhich the chairman of the Chamber of Representatives Mike Johnson and the Republican leader in the Senate John Thune did not want – without the clear consent of President Trump – to present as a separate bill.
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Clever strategy
It is not a surprise that this idea came from Graham, who has been pressing his colleagues and administration for months to accept a means that imposes secondary sanctions on countries such as India and China, which effectively support Moscow's war economy.
The idea is that by linking this measure to a possible temporary law on financing administration, republican leaders in the congress could defeat isolationists in their own party, put pressure on democratic hawk to Russia, who would not be willing to support CR, and push the important act on foreign policy without arousing the anger of Trump.
The inclusion of the law on sanctions may still not be enough to convince more than a handful of Democrats from the Congress to maintain the functioning of the government, but this would still give the leaders of the Republican party a greater advantage.
Graham talked to Thun on this strategy on Saturday, and the leader of the Republicans in the Senate reacted positively to the idea.
Trump to convince
Thune is a traditional internationalist from the Republican Party and has long been open to this law, but repeated many times that he wanted to introduce it in consultation with the White House.
Graham hopes that he will finally get it Trump's support for the Sanctions Actif it is also possible to convince Europeans to take a harder position towards China, the greatest buyer of Russian energy.
US President Donald Trump, Washington, September 11, 2025.Saul Loeb / AFP
The senator from South Carolina talked with the chairwoman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and several other European leaders to inform them about his plan and convince them that a way to make Trump to confront Moscow is to take the same actions to China and India. The president has already imposed high duties on India.
– The way to maintain Trump's support is joining him in the case of China and India – said Graham, referring to his act on secondary sanctions, which has been waiting by the Congress of Europe for months. – If you like the Graham Act so much, why don't you prepare a similar one yourself?
“The free world must take action”
Graham has 85 co -trainers of its act, which is an extraordinary supra -party consensus, but the project has been suspended for months.
However, because Russia is still negotiating a month after Trump invited Vladimir Putin to Alaska, where the American pressed the Russian leader to have a double -sided meeting with the President of Ukraine, Wołodylyn Zelodly, Republican Congressmen are becoming more and more frustrated A slow pace of Moscow's actions towards Trump.
– It's more than a matter of politics “It's a determination test,” said Graham and Fitzpatrick. – The free world must take action, and America must lead.
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